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André Derain
André Derain was a French artist, painter, sculptor and co-founder, with Henri Matisse, of Fauvism. His paintings of 1905–1906 are characterized by riotous colourism in the Fauve style. By 1910, however, his work had become more austere as a result of his study of Cézanne and the old masters. After the First World War, Derain became one of the leaders of the new classicism in the arts known as the…
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Born 10 June 1880 · Died 8 September 1954 · Q156272
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2026· 4 entries
Artnet news: André Derain
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Le Journal du Dimanche: «L’Automne d’André Derain» : Michel Bernard ressuscite le génie du fauvisme
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Le Figaro: Quand le peintre André Derain participait au « voyage d’étude » des artistes chez les nazis
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2025· 1 entry
All of Derain's work entered the public domain in the United States
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2024· 1 entry
Ladepeche.fr: Conférence sur André Derain, le jeudi 4 avril
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2023· 3 entries
Le Figaro: André Derain : un esprit fort dans la cage aux fauves, sur Museum TV
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Derain's Still Life With a Bottle was restituted to the heirs of Dane Reichsmann, who was murdered in Auschwitz with his wife
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, co-organized and exhibited Vertigo of Color: Matisse, Derain, and the Origins of Fauvism, an exhibit examining their work together and the birth of Fau
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2020· 2 entries
Le Parisien: Patrimoine : à Chambourcy, la maison André Derain, un Fauve insaisissable
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A French court ordered that three paintings by Derain, Paysage à Cassis (ou Vue de Cassis), La Chapelle-sous-Crécy were restituted and Pinède, Cassis should be restituted to the heirs of René Gimpel, from whom they had b
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2019· 1 entry
Rue: Octobre 2017. Exposition André Derain 1904-1914, la décennie radicale
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2017· 4 entries
Radio France Internationale: André Derain arrives at Paris' Centre Pompidou
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Radio France Internationale: Centre Pompidou: «André Derain», radical et (longtemps) oublié
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Connaissance des Arts: André Derain triomphe à Beaubourg
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Hyperallergic: Stroll a Fauvist Shore in a Digital Tribute to André Derain
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2005· 1 entry
The Daily Telegraph: In pictures: Andre Derain: The London Paintings
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1954· 1 entry
Died 1954-09-08.
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1941· 1 entry
And traveled with other French artists to Berlin to attend a Nazi exhibition of an officially endorsed artist, Arno Breker
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1928· 1 entry
For his Still-life with Dead Game and began to exhibit extensively abroad—in London, Berlin, Frankfurt, Düsseldorf, New York City and Cincinnati, Ohio
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1919· 1 entry
Designed the ballet La Boutique fantasque for Diaghilev's Ballets Russes
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1914· 1 entry
Was mobilized for military service in World War I and until his release in 1919 he would have little time for painting, although in 1916 he provided a set of illustrations for André Breton's first book, Mont de Piete
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1910· 1 entry
In 1912 at the secessionist Der Blaue Reiter and in 1913 at the seminal Armory Show in New York
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1907· 1 entry
Art dealer Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler purchased Derain's entire studio, granting Derain financial stability
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1900· 1 entry
Met and shared a studio with Maurice de Vlaminck and together they began to paint scenes in the neighbourhood, but this was interrupted by military service at Commercy from September 1901 to 1904
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1898· 1 entry
While studying to be an engineer at the Académie Camillo, he attended painting classes under Eugène Carrière, and there met Matisse
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1895· 1 entry
Began to study on his own, contrary to claims that meeting Vlaminck or Matisse began his efforts to paint, and occasionally went to the countryside with an old friend of Cézanne's, Father Jacomin along with his two so
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1880· 2 entries
Born 1880-06-10.
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In Chatou, Yvelines, Île-de-France, just outside Paris
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